Chapter 6, Section 4

Question 1

National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) approach (state by state or federal)

Answer 1

state-by-state

Question 2

How many states granted women’s suffrage by 1901?

Answer 2

4 western states

Question 3

Who broke away from NAWSA to form NWA?

Answer 3

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns

Question 4

National Women’s Association (NWA) approach (federal or state-by-state)

Answer 4

Federal- wanted constitutional amendment

Question 5

What were some of the NWA’s tactics?

Answer 5

-used radical tactics
-arrested, hunger strikes

Question 6

What did the 19th amendment do?

Answer 6

granted women the right to vote

Question 7

Why did WW1 help with the suffrage movement?

Answer 7

Women helped and supported the war effort

Question 8

What was the Brownsville Incident of 1906?

Answer 8

There was a lot of tension between black soldiers at Fort Brown and white citizens. On August 13th gunshots killed a white bartender and wounded a Hispanic police officer. The residents immediately blame black soldiers. All of the white commanders said soldiers were all at barracks. The (white) residents provided “evidence” of spent bullet shells. The soldiers were pressured to name who fired the shots. The 12 soldiers were investigated but no charges were brought. However, the residents still complained

Question 9

What was Roosevelt’s dark mark of his presidency?

Answer 9

He ordered all 167 soldiers dishonorably discharged

Question 10

What happened when the soldiers were dishonorably discharged?

Answer 10

lost pensions, could not work in military or civil service positions

Question 11

When was the Brownsville Incident of 1906 reinvestigated?

Answer 11

1970

Question 12

What/when was the verdict of the second investigation?

Answer 12

1972- the soldiers were innocent

Question 13

Who was the president in 1970-72?

Answer 13

Richard Nixon

Question 14

How did Nixon react to the new verdict in ‘72?

Answer 14

The soldiers were given pardons, and the only survivor was given a $25,000 as compensation

Question 15

Woodrow Wilson: racist or very racist?

Answer 15

very racist

Question 16

What did Wilson allow to happen for the first time in Washington D.C.?

Answer 16

segregation

Question 17

What federal law did he oppose?

Answer 17

anti-lynching law (show be left to the states)

Question 18

What did Wilson illegalize?

Answer 18

black and white marriage

Question 19

When and why did progressivism end?

Answer 19

1914-> the start of WW1, because more people were concerned about the war than anything else

Question 20

3 candidates in the election of 1908

Answer 20

Eugene Debs (s)
William Taft (R)
William Jennings Bryan

Question 21

Who was William Taft?

Answer 21

an unwilling candidate who was hand picked to be TR’s replacement (wanted to be a supreme court justice)

Question 22

4 accomplishments of Taft’s presidency

Answer 22

-16th Amendment
-2 new states (AZ and NM)
-reputation as a trustbuster
-17th Amendment

Question 23

3 reasons why Taft lost the support of Republicans

Answer 23

-signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
-supported Richard Ballinger over Gifford Pinchot
- backed Joseph Cannon

Question 24

What was the Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Answer 24

tariff supposed to lower tariff but actually raised it after it had so many revisions. Taft signed it anyway. Progressives angry because they saw the tariff as a way to lower prices of consumer goods.

Question 25

What was Ballinger vs. Pinchot?

Answer 25

-Ballinger (Secretary of Interior) accused of fraud in public land deals in Alaska. Pinchot complained about Ballinger. Taft fired Pinchot.

Question 26

Who was Joseph Cannon?

Answer 26

Cannon was a conservative not a conservationist. Was was stripped of a lot of his power. Taft sided with him

Question 27

Candidates in election of 1912

Answer 27

-William Howard Taft (R)
-Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Party) with Hiram Johnson as Vice-President
-Woodrow Wilson (D)
-Eugene Debs (Socialist)

Question 28

What was the Progressive Party also known as?

Answer 28

Bull Moose

Question 29

How did Wilson win?

Answer 29

The republican votes were split, leaving the majority to Wilson

Question 30

Woodrow Wilson’s past

Answer 30

• born in south
• governor of NJ
• Progressive reputation

Question 31

Name of Wilson’s social program

Answer 31

The New Freedom

Question 32

3 areas the New Freedom focused on

Answer 32

-tariff reductions
-banking reforms
-stronger antitrust laws

Question 33

-Underwood Tariff Act (1913)

Answer 33

-reduced tariffs to the lowest levels in 50 years
-meant that the government would have less income

Question 34

Government response to the Underwood Tariff Act (1913)

Answer 34

-people taxed different rates based on their income level

Question 35

Federal Reserve Act (1913)

Answer 35

• created a central fund that banks could borrow from
  -created a Federal Reserve Board
  -officials appt. by the president to run the
  system
  -created 12 federal reserve banks
  -customers are banks not people
  -banks borrow from a federal reserve bank when
  need $$$

Question 36

Why did banks need reforms

Answer 36

-banking system needed reform
-banks collapsed when runs were created

Question 37

What was Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

Answer 37

strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 38

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (1915)

Answer 38

had the power to begin special investigations of businesses